Visual Studio Tools for Office: Outlook integration! | TheChannel9Team

aToast
IT will make you cry

I have a quick question (while I'm still dl'ing the video) - can you get this working on the Visual Studio Express editions. I followed the instruction in your article and downloaded the toolset, and it installed just fine. The problem is that the project template isn't installed in my C# Visual Studio Express Edition.

wacko

the answer is no... VSTO does not work in the express editions of VS. So you have to upgrade to the next level.

dotnetjunkie

Cool! Building my first application with it now! Only problem is that I have to get it ready by Wednesday! But what's giving me even more stress is that I have to demo it in front of 200 people! Wish me luck! Smiley

wacko

I have a question... through these add-ins can you make outlook send out its little notification ? based on some criteria ?

wacko

it does have that... in outlook 2003 you can make it so the outlook icon is in the taskbar and on top of that it notify's you when new e-mails arrive. This is only in outlook 2003

brian8480

I'm trying to understand the Outlook Addin comments. Assuming your talking about the standard outlook COM/Interop addin model using the PIAs and connecting through IExt., why would I need VSTO to do that?

Is the O 12 Addin model changing?

brian8480

Orbit86 wrote:
what outlook desperately needs is a email notification icon in the taskbar to pop up when you have new emails. my subsitute is my AIM messenager which looks in the pop3 address I gave it

The cool thing about the O-11 addin model is that... even if outlook didnt do this out of the box, you could make it do so pretty easily... The ghenghis project has a class api called AniForm (I think thats it) that looks a lot like the MS Messenger popup so, if you wanted, you could create an addin that hooks into the Outlook Events and, show a Messenger Style popup everytime you receive a new message.

awhitechapel

You can certainly create a managed IDTExtensibility2 add-in for Outlook without VSTO. What VSTO 2005 brings to the party is support for the new IStartup-based add-ins. This support includes both a new set of Visual Studio project types, and also a runtime that does all the basic things like creating a separate appdomain, checking security policy, checking for updates, and so on. These services are not available for IDTExtensibility2 add-ins unless you write them yourself.

Bob_Chauvin

Anyone know how to migrate a B2 VSTO for outlook add-in to RC compatable?

For reference see John Durant's post re the change to classes changed for the RC:

http://blogs.msdn.com/johnrdurant/archive/2005/08/23/vsto_application_change.aspx#462150